Madrid The flight to Madrid was fine, although our welcome to the city was not ideal... Taking the metro in from the airport into the city, Dav and I were travelling up an escalator between platforms, when Dav felt a slight tug on his shorts. Looking down, he saw a little hand, belonging to the young girl behind him on the escalator, deep in his pocket, fingers around his wallet and trying to pull it out. Luckily the pocket had Velcro on both sides and so she was having no luck at all in removing the wallet. Dav went crazy at her, calling her all sorts of names that I couldn’t possibly repeat, and she slunk off back down the escalator. Reporting it to the security, they said that they would keep their eyes out
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